The book i am reading at the moment, is the third book in the Skulduggery Pleasant book series... this is why you have to read these books!
These books have a brilliant mix of fantasy, crime and detectives. Skulduggery Pleasant and his sidekick, Stephanie Edgley, who soon becomes Valkyrie Cain, are the heros who stop the world ending, or letting the Faceless Ones destroy planet earth. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have magical powers, and can use them to create fireballs, to create forces with the air, to walk on water, and lots more. There is also another type of magic, a really dark type of magic used by the villans, and one more type of magic, the fighting kind of magic.
There are some epic characters across the series, such as Tanith Low, China Sorrows, Mr. Bliss, Fletcher Renn, Nefarian Serpine, and Billy-Ray Sanguine.
The books are written really well, with good descriptions and sometimes gross and gory descriptions. There are some murders, fights, blood and flesh, although i would not call these books horrors. There are even some funny bits in the books. The books can get a bit scary, so make sure your nine or above to read these. I love these books so much, they have so much imagination, there just great.
I really do recomend this series!